how to automatically reload a firefox page

From	Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	how to automatically reload a firefox page
Date	2017-07-26 15:00 +0200
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:55:42 -0400, I wrote:

>> I'm looking for an automated way to have firefox-esr reload its window at
>> regular intervals.  There's a site to which I like to stay connected that
>> logs me off if the window is inactive for long.

On Tue Jul 25 05:54:22 2017, Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> replied:

> How about making a local web page reloadpage.html where you include the
> command to reload evert 234 seconds
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="234; url=~/myhtml/reloadpage.html" />
> and make a table which includes the webpage you want to stay active on within
> your local page.

and on Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:55:23 +0200, Jochen Spieker <js@wim.re> added:

> You need an iframe:
>
> https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp

I hadn't known about inline frames, but this works well at the site I want to
refresh.  Tab Mix Plus has also worked, so now I have two options for
reloading.  Thanks again to everyone for the good ideas.

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how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-24 15:00 +0200
  Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Jan <phenomenalia@yandex.com> - 2017-07-24 17:30 +0200
    Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-25 12:00 +0200
      Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-25 18:10 +0200
        Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Jochen Spieker <js@wim.re> - 2017-07-25 21:10 +0200
        how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-26 15:00 +0200
    Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> - 2017-07-25 18:00 +0200

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